The strange thingh is, some such servers seems to be outside discussion while others are not. ;)
John Tisza Gergő skrev: > Nathan <nawr...@...> writes: > >> Others have since discussed more centralised and secure methods for >> providing these statistics via the WMF - this is the ideal outcome, and one >> that might have been achieved earlier had you proposed your method rather >> than simply going ahead alone. > > Setting up an off-the-shelf awstats with an invisible pixel is web statistics > 101, not something that needs to be invented. The reason nothing similar got > implemented is not that nobody thought of this method, but that it wouldn't > work > with enwiki so nobody cared. Actually, the old knams stat (which also > collected > referrers, so it was in some aspects superior) could have been easily kept > working by filtering out enwiki, and maybe the next few largest projects; > again, > nobody cared. Features that only benefit the smaller projects rarely get > enough > developer interest, which is understandable, but then it is only natural that > those smaller projects try to solve their issues for themselves. And we did it > with privacy in mind - we would have obviously preferred Google Analytics > ourselves, but we didn't switch because we didn't want the logs to leak to > servers not controlled by WM community, and because it shows data that can be > used to identify IP adresses. > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
